Suns Blow it in Houston
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The Phoenix Suns fell apart in the third quarter last night as the hot shooting and rebounding of Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming proved too much and sent the Suns home with a 120-117 loss. McGrady had a vintage night and nobody could shut him down. The Suns shot the ball extremely well but the disparity in rebounding doomed the visiting Suns despite a fourth quarter rally.
Amare was active as ever, while not puting up big rebounding numbers against his much larger foe Yao, he was active in passing lanes all night and collected six steals. I was impressed at the desterity he showed when anticipating passes and explosively jumping into the lane. The Suns played well until the third quarter when Yao and T-Mac got too hot to handle.
Shawn Marion played extremely well with his teammate Amare and he was all over the place, although we could have used some lockdown defense on Tracy. The Matrix was hitting all sorts of circus shots and was a huge reason we were still in the game in the fourth. The highlight play of the night came on an Amare steal and break when he got locked up by the defense he dumped it to a quick-cutting Diaw who took it hard at the rim but then dumped it to the waiting Marion who had the tenacity to avoid Yao and lay it in. Pretty play.
Anyways, the ramifications of this loss are small as the Spurs also lost last night so it looks like we will be hanging on to our playoff position and hopefully we see the Lakers in the first round. The Lakers have taken a serious step back this season and Phil Jackson is feeling the frustration and actually came out and said the Suns weren’t an explosive team to the media. Phil Jackson is overrated. Injuries or not, he’s got Kobe and Lamar Odom, who should be a top 10 player in the league, and this Laker team is bad.
I guess the era of riding your superstars has passed and now that he actually has to coach, things aren’t going so well.
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